Given below are two statements, one is labelled asAssertion (A) :and other as Reason (R):Assertion (A):The Mughal Empire was originally a Military State.Reason (R):The vitality of the development of the Central Government System depended on its military power.Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

1. A

   Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

   Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason correctly explains Assertion. The Mughal state was organised around conquest, mansab and jagir—its core was military. The central machinery (diwan, mir bakhshi, provincial faujdar network) kept vitality only while that military power held. That pairing is the official key.

2. B

   Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

   Both true but R not explaining A would split two independent facts. Here military power is precisely why the empire is called a military state, so the ‘not the correct explanation’ formula fails.

3. C

   (A) is true, but (R) is false.

   (A) true and (R) false would require denying that central-government vitality rested on military strength. Mughal administrative history does not support that denial.

4. D

   (A) is false, but (R) is true.

   (A) false and (R) true would deny the military-state character of the Mughal empire, which the item and the stored key do not do.

Summary. Official key is (a): both true and R explains A. Historians describe the Mughal polity as a war-state whose mansabdari ranked nobles as troop-suppliers. When military overstretch and jagir crisis grew, the centre weakened. The reason is not a side remark; it is the mechanism behind the assertion. Honour the stored letter (a).